Researchers: Dr David Doyle, with Professor Catherine De Vries, Professor Kim Plunkett (Department of Experimental Psychology) and Janette Chow (Department of Experimental Psychology) Funder: John Fell Fund What is the relationship between parents’ political beliefs and their children’s attitudes? How do we develop our political attitudes, and how are our moral beliefs about the world formed? These questions are central to our understanding of politics, but we still don’t understand the development of the cognitive processes which shape our political attitudes and allegiances. This project takes methods and theory from experimental psychology and behavioural economics to shed light on a question which is central to our understanding of politics. Using specially created cartoons, which show two characters (“Timmy the Turtle” …